Comment 2 for bug 683584

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for the patch!

But I don't fully understand this. Why would I want to use a system Python instead of a virtualenv? It seems to me zc.buildout should be trying to provide a similar isolation as is provided by virtualenv, to "save" people from having to do:

   $ virtualenv --no-site-packages foo ; cd foo ; bin/pip install zc.buildout ; bin/buildout init

In other words, create a buildout inside a virtualenv to isolate from site-packages. Does this patch provide such isolation? And if so, how?

Thanks for any comments,

Alex